Treating Depression: What Really Works

With Michael Yapko • 6 Sessions • 6 Optional CE Credits

Analyze state-of-the-art, well-researched, but often ignored treatments that provide relief to a large majority of depressed clients.

This course explores the current state-of-the-art knowledge about treating depression, with a focus on well-researched treatments already in the therapeutic repertoire.

What's Covered in A210 Treating Depression:

Step-by-step instructions for using successful, but often ignored, treatment approaches, including strategies for dealing with sleep disturbance, anxiety, attributional thinking, and dysfunctional behaviors and thoughts.

How to strike a balance between being supportive and empathetic, on the one hand, and gently challenging the client, on the other, by assigning homework for depression-fighting skills.

Session 5:

Session 6:

Treatment planning strategies

Learning to think strategically

Homework and task assignments

Prevention issues

Course summary

Meet Presenter Michael Yapko, PhD

Michael D. Yapko, Ph.D, is a clinical psychologist and marriage and family therapist who's internationally recognized for his work in the strategic treatment of depression and teaches professional audiences all over the world. He's the author of 12 books, including Treating Depression with Hypnosis; Hand-Me-Down Blues: How to Stop Depression; and Breaking the Patterns of Depression.